Around 1965 I picked up an 03A3 action for $7.50 and a Phiefer 1-14 barrel chambered for 30-06 in standard Springfield taper for another $5.00. I put the two together and had a nice barreld action. At the Houston Gun Show that year, I got a Fajen reject stock out of a barrel of 2nds. for $1.50. I put them all together for for $14.00 and a bunch of elbow grease, had a nice Springfield sporter.
I picked up a new long slide Lyman 48 at the Texas Gun Clinic for $24.00 and almost had a stroke. That was $10.00 more than I had in the rifle.
Said rifle sat in my closet unfired for 15 years. In 1980 I was living in El Paso and joined a gun club that had weekly cast bullet silhouette matches. Chicken at 50, pigs at 100, turkeys at 150 and rams at 200 meters. It was all off hand and only cast bullets allowed. It was then, I remembered the Springfield in the closet with the 1-14 barrel.
I got a copy of the then newish NRA Cast Bullet book by Harris. He was very big on the 311467U and 311334 for bullets in the 06. So I ordered both of those molds and it was 311467 that proved to be the ticket.
When cast from Linotype it ran .304 on the top band, .306 on the second band and .309 on all of the rest. I ran it though a .310 die to lube and crimp the gascheck. It had to be seated deep into the case to chamber.
I swaged a load of 20/4759 from the book and went to the range. It shoots as well as any 30-06 match ammo and I sighted in and shot at all of the ranges to get the elevation ajustments fixed in my head.
I was the only one not using a scope, but I did very well in the first two matches. That bullet and load knocked down the 200 meter rams with great authority, even with an edge hit. The others had all kinds of different loads and bullets for different ranges. That made no sense to me, I wanted a 200 meter ram load and used it for the 50 meter chickens, even if it was overkill.
Well after three shoots, the moved the matches to Sunday mornings and I was out. Sunday morning is a work day for us Preacher types. I always wondered if they did that get me out of the matches. I was knocking their chickens AH over appetite.
The rifle went back in the closet and some years later went by-by.
A couple of years back, I picked up another 311467 on Ebay and this one ran .302 on the top two bands and ..313 on the best. In the Krags and 06s, it proved to be the best bullet in the fleet. Those two top bands entered the barrel and acted like bore riding bands. Accuracy was outstanding in all rifles tried.
Some months back I ran across a box of about 500 of those lino 311467Us I cast 25 years ago. I sized those large top two bands to .3015 in a die Buckshot made and again the bullet was ran through a .310 die to lube and crimp the gas check.
In my NRA Sprter Springfield these bullets will shoot groups so small it is scary. The five shot groups look like one 45 cal hole with ragged edges. The Model 70 does just about as well.
There may be better bullets for the 30-06 but I don't know what they are. In all truth, I don't see how accuracy can get much better in sporter rifles. The brain guy at Lyman must have been on vaction, when they droped 311467 from their lineup.
I think these bullet are at their best when the first bands bore ride. Larger bands might be just fine for rifles with worn throats, but in my rifles the bore size bands do best. That is why I speced the top two bands on the original 311407 Mod. buy to .301 - .302.
Bottom line ... If there is a better cast bullet for the 30-06 than 311467, I wish somebody would break the code of silence and tell me.